App Store Update: November 13

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Note:The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

Game Debuts

XCOM: Enemy Within – ($12.99)

From our Review of the PC Version: Enemy Within is an amazing expansion to a brilliant tactical game. It’s front-loaded with enticing new options that dramatically increase the replay value of the first half of the campaign, though the latter half is a bit neglected. More than ever, XCOM is a spectacular tactical game full of stories and characters you create for yourself, and is best enjoyed in Iron Man mode on Classic difficulty to enhance the emotional highs and lows of victory and permanent defeat.

The unstoppable team at Ravenous Games is at it again, this time delivering an epic conclusion to their Random Heroes trilogy:

FRAMED – ($4.99)

An award-winning indie darling, FRAMED is a puzzler in which you rearrange the sequence of comic book-ish panels to alter the story of a noir-era detective. It looks sensational:

Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure – ($3.99)

"Space Age is a game of cosmic adventure. Set in the retro-futuristic sci-fi world of 1976, it follows a small but determined band of intergalactic explorers who land on a seemingly uninhabited planet, Kepler-16. They soon discover there’s something both strange and familiar about this alien place…"

Crystal Siege HD – ($4.99)

Finally, the newest tower defense + RPG fusion design, this time from FDG:

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